The Event

CONTENTS

Translator's Introductionxix

Forewords

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, vv. 73–74.

This “presentation” does not describe and report

The destiny of beyng devolves upon the thinkers

The dispensation of beyng in the event toward the beginning

Not only throughout all the world

In regard to Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)

I. The first beginning

A. The first beginning
ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ

1. The first beginning

2. Ἀλήθεια—ἰδέα

3. Errancy

4. Ἀλήθεια (Plato)

5. ἕν out of οὐσία

6. Truth and being for the Greeks (Said and unsaid)

7. ἀ-λήθεια

8. Ἀλήθεια and “space and time”

9. Ἀλήθεια and the first beginning (φύσις)

10. ἀ-λήθεια

11. In the first beginning

12. Truth and the true

13. Unconcealedness

14. φύσις—ἀλήθεια—beyng

15. Ἀ-λήθεια and the open

16. Truth and beyng

17. ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ

18. “Truth” and beyng

19. On the question of truth

20. The moment of consolidation

21. ἀλήθεια—ἰδέα

22. Truth and being

23. ἀγαθόν

24. How ἀλήθεια

25. To say simply

26. How ἀλήθεια

27. ταὐτόν

28. ταὐτόν

29. How νοῦς—λόγος—ψυχή

30. How to come to steadfastness now for the first time

31. One cannot

32. The ground of the transformation of the essence of truth

33. φύσις—ἀλήθεια

34. φύσις—the emergence that goes back into itself

35. Ἀλήθεια → ὁμοίωσις

36. Beyng and the human being

37. The beyngs of beyng

38. The first beginning

39. The experience of the disentanglement in the first beginning

40. τὸ ἕν—τὸ ταὐτόν—ἀλήθεια

41. The experience of the first beginning

42. The first beginning

43. For the interpretation

44. Beyng is

B. Δόξα

45. From ἀλήθεια—φύσις to the ἰδέα over δόξα

46. τὰ δοκοῦντα

48. The provenance of δόξα

49. ἀλήθεια—δόξα

50. Parmenides

51. δόξα

52. δόξα and τὰ δοκοῦντα

53. γίνεσθαι—ὄλλυσθαι

C. Anaximander

54. If the ἄπειρον of Anaximander were ἀλήθεια?

55. The transition

56. τὸ πέρας—τὸ ἄπειρον

57. ἀδικία

58. In the dictum of Anaximander

59. The utterance of being

D. Western thinking
Reflexion
Da-seyn

60. Thoughtful thinking and the “concept”

61. Why nothing “comes forth” in “thinking” (as “philosophy”)

62. The beginning of Western thinking

63. To think about thinking

64. The beginning of thinking

65. Philosophy—thinking—being

66. Tradition out of the essence of historiality

67. History and historiology

E. Under way toward the first beginning
The preparation for the thinking of beyng in its historicality
So as to remain on the bridge

68. Key words with respect to being

69. To arrive at the domain of the disposition . . .

70. The transition

71. The collapse of Ἀλήθεια out of the global mountain range; the beginning of the destiny of being.

F. The first beginning

72. The time is coming

73. Truth and cognition

74. On the presentation of the first beginning

75. The essence of being in the first beginning

76. Recollection into the first beginning

77. φύσις and the first beginning

78. What does not yet begin in the first beginning

79. The first beginning and its inceptuality

80. The first beginning as Ἀλήθεια

81. In the first beginning

82. The thinkers of the first beginning

83. The first beginning

84. The interpretation of the first beginning

85. In regard to the interpretation of the first beginning

86. The interpretative recollection

87. Procedure

88. The obvious objection

89. Anaximander and Heraclitus

90. Anaximander and Parmenides

91. Heraclitus and Parmenides

G. The first beginning

92. The first beginning. ἀλήθεια

93. To show the first (beginning)

94. The concealed ineffability of the first beginning

95. The first beginning

96. The first beginning

97. Not all thinkers at the start

98. The first beginning

99. The first beginning

G. The first beginning

100. Ἀλήθεια → ὀρθότης

101. The advancement out of the first beginning

102. Presence, constancy, rigidity

103. φύσις—ἰδέα

II. THE RESONATING

A. The resonating
Vista

104. The resonating

105. The resonating

106. The resonating

107. The history of beyng

108. The resonating

109. The first resonating is that of the passing by

110. The resonating

B. The signs of the transition
The passing by
The in-between of the history of beyng

111. Signs of being in the age of the consummation of metaphysics

112. The errancy of the errant star as the in-between of the passing by

113. The essence of truth in the passing by

114. The unavoidable

115. The demise of metaphysics; the transition

116. The passing by

117. The passing by

118. The passing by

119. The passing by

120. The resonating

121. The overcoming of metaphysics

C. Modernity and the West

122. The demise of metaphysics; the transition to the first beginning

123. God-lessness experienced in terms of the history of beyng

124. The consummation of modernity

125. The passing by

126. The time of the thinking of the history of beyng

127. The will to willing

128. The errancy of machination

129. The essence of “modernity”

130. Modernity and the West

131. “The West” and “Europe”

132. The West and Europe

133. Abandonment by being; the West

134. “The West”

135. The West

136. World-history and the West

137. Certainty, security, establishment, calculation, and order

138. Devastation

139. The inceptuality of the beginning; beyng

D. Metaphysics
The episode
between
the first beginning and the other beginning
The transition
(its signs)

140. Metaphysics

141. "Metaphysics"

142. Beginning and advancement

143. Metaphysics and beyng

144. How and in what sense

145. Metaphysics

146. The demise of metaphysics in the will to willing

147. “Essence” and “being”

148. The end of metaphysics; “world-picture”

149. The consummation of metaphysics

150. Steadfastness within the beginning

151. “Being”

152. “Order” and the forgottenness of being

153. The end of metaphysics; reflection

154. The last remnants of the demise of “philosophy” in the age of the consummation of metaphysics

155. Forgottenness of being

156. Being as machination

157. Being as the non-sensory

158. Metaphysics: Kant and Schelling—Hegel

159. Truth as certainty

160. Biological “life” (Nietzsche)

161. Metaphysics

162. The demise of metaphysics

163. The saying

E. The will to willing

164. “Being” in metaphysics

165. The will to willing

166. The will to willing

III. THE DIFFERENCE

167. Beyng

168. Introduction

169. The difference (Outline)

170. The difference and nothingness

171. The difference and the event

172. The difference

173. The difference

174. The difference and the “understanding of being”

175. The differentiation

176. The differentiation and the difference

177. Negativity and no-saying

178. Nothingness

IV. THE TWISTING FREE

179. Outline

180. The history of beyng

181. The history of beyng

182. The conjuncture of beyng

183. The conjuncture of beyng

V. THE EVENT

The vocabulary of its essence

184. The event. The vocabulary of its essence

185. The treasure of the word

VI. THE EVENT

186. The event. Outline

187. The appropriating event

188. Event and compassion

189. Beginning and the appropriating event

190. Event and domain of what is proper

191. Event and fate

192. The appropriating event is incursion

193. Event—experience

194.To show—to eventuate

VII. THE EVENT AND THE HUMAN BEING

195. The event and the human being

196. The event—The human being

197. The event

198. The event; the human being as understood with respect to the history of beyng, i.e., with respect to historiality

199. The event and the human being

200. The event and the human being

201. The event and the human being

202. Being and death

203. What cannot be experienced of the beginning

204. The beginning and the human being

205. Beyng and the human being

206. The beginning and the human being

207. The human being and being

208. Being and the human being

209. Beyng and the human being

210. Beyng and the human being—The simple experience

211. Being and the human being

VIII. DA-SEYN

212. Da-sein. Outline

213. Da-seyn

214. Da-sein

215. Da-sein

216. Da-sein

217. All beyng is Da-seyn

218. “Dasein” (history of the word)

219. Da and Da-sein

220. The clearing and its semblant emptiness

221. The simple and the desolate

222. In Da-sein

223. Da-sein

224. Beyng—as Da-seyn

225. The temporal domain of godlessness with respect to the history of beyng (experienced godlessness)

226. Da-sein illuminates

227. Da-sein and “openness”

A. The human being as understood with respect
to the history of beyng
and
Da-seyn (steadfastness)

228. Steadfastness

229. The nobility of indigence

230. Steadfastness

231. Steadfastness in Da-sein

232. Knowledge

233. The event and historial humanity

234. The nobility of humans and their indigence in the history of beyng

235. The event and the human being

236. The open realm of concealment

237. Steadfastness and the clearing of the “there”

238. The incomparable

B. Da-seyn
Time-space
Da-sein and “reflexion”
Steadfastness and disposition

239. “Reflexion”

240. Da-sein—“space”

C. Disposition and Da-sein
The pain of the question-worthiness of beyng

241. Disposition

242. “Disposition”

243. The disposition of thinking is the voice of beyng

244. Downgoing and its disposition

245. Da-sein and thanking

246. The basic dispositions of the history of beyng

247. The basic dispositions of the history of beyng

248. Predisposition

249. Voice, disposition, “feelings”

IX. The other beginning

250. In what does the essential unity of event and beginning dwell?

251. The counter-turn in the event and the beginning

252. The beginning

253. The beginning

254. The last god

X. Directives to the event

A. The enduring of the difference (distinction)
Experience as the pain “of” the departure

255. Pain—experience—knowledge

256. Experience

257. The pain of the enduring

258. Enduring as thanking

259. The enduring of the difference

260. Inceptual thinking is abyssal thinking

261. Beyng is experienced

262. The question: In what way?

263. The thinking of the history of beyng says beyng

264. Enduring and questioning The question-worthiness of beyng

265. The essence of experience The question-worthiness of beyng

266. Founding and enduring

B. The thinking of the history of beyng
The enduring of the difference (distinction)
The care of the abyss
The timber trail
Thinking and the word

267. The thinking of the history of beyng

268. The thinking of the history of beyng

269. The thinking of the history of beyng in the transition

270. The thinking of the history of beyng

271. The thinking of the history of beyng. The thoughtful word

272. The thinking of the history of beyng

273. The event

274. Thinking

275. The discrepancy in the priority of presentation

276. The beginning—inexperience

277. The inconsolable departure

278. The thinking of the history of beyng; the concept

279. Inceptual thinking

280. The enduring of the difference

281. Thinking as enduring

282. The enduring

283. The gainsaying in the saying of the event

284. The timber trail

285. Beginning and immediacy

286. Inceptual thinking in its origination out of metaphysics

287. If being bends toward itself the track of mankind

288. The thinking of beyng

289. Thinking and words

290. Beyng—thinking

C. Toward a first elucidation of the basic words
“Truth” (With regard to: The saying of the first beginning)
The “essence” and the “essential occurrence”
History and historiality

a. The “essence” and the “essential occurrence”

291. Beyng and essence

b. History

292. Terminology

293. History is historiality

294. The essence of historiality

295. History

296. History

297. Overcoming, transition, beginning

298. The history of being

299. Space and time

300. History and historiology

301. Going under

XI. The thinking of the history of beyng
(Thinking and poetizing)

A. The experience of that which is worthy of questioning
The leap
The confrontation
The clarification of action
The knowledge of thinking

302. Guiding notions

303. The thinking of the history of beyng is the inceptual experience of the twisting free of beyng

304. The first step of inceptual thinking

305. The knowledge of thinking

306. How the thoughtful thinking of beyng is a thanking

307. The thinking of the history of beyng is the non-transitory departure of beyng

308. The thinking of beyng

309. The all-arousing, constant experience of the thinking of the history of beyng

310. Thoughtful grounding as exposition of the ground. Grounding and experience. To remain in the most proper law of thinking

311. The thoughtful assertion

312. The thinking of the history of beyng with regard to the beginning

313. Thoughtful saying and its claim

314. The word

315. The leap

316. The clarification of what is to be done

317. “Critique”

B. The beginning and heedfulness

318. The experience of the beginning

319. Experience

320. Markings and heedfulness

321. On heedfulness

322. On heedfulness

323. Heedfulness

324. Heedfulness

325. Forgottenness of being

326. The forgottenness of being

327. The forgottenness of being; heedfulness

328. Being and beings

329. Beginning and being

330. The decision

C. The saying of the beginning

331. The word, metaphysics, and the beginning

332. The word of inceptual thinking

333. The thinking of the history of beyng and the demand for univocity, non-contradiction, non-circularity, and comprehensibility

334. Within the first attempt at the thinking of the history of beyng

335. The saying of the beginning

336. The saying of the beginning

337. The saying of the beginning

338. The inceptual claim of the beginning

339. Inceptual thinking

340. Beginning as ἀρχή; inceptual thinking

341. Beginning and recollection

342. The saying of the beginning

D. Thinking and knowing
Thinking and poetizing

343. Poetizing—Thinking

344. To be greeted; Da-sein

345. The transition

346. Poetizing and thinking

347. Thinking and poetizing

348. Silence and saying

349. Thanking

350. Essential thinking

351. Essential thinking

352. Thinking and poetizing

353. Admission and steadfastness

354. Admission and detachment

355. The shyness in the beginning

356. “Thinking”

357. Thanking and silence

358. Thinking and thanking

359. Thanking and beyng

360. Appropriating event and thanking

361. Thinking

362. Thinking and cognition

363. Thinking

E. Poetizing and thinking

364. Poetizing and thinking

365. Thinking and poetizing

F. The poet and the thinker

366. Poetizing and thinking

367. The truth of Hölderlin’s poetry

368. The first and most extreme separation of thinking and poetizing

369. Thinking and poetizing

370. Poetizing and thinking

371. Poetizing and thinking

372. The thanking of the renunciation is thoughtful thanking

373. With respect to the history of beyng, the future essence of the poet and the thinker

374. Poetizing and thinking in their relation to the word

375. One thinker and another

G. “Commentary” and “interpretation”

a. Thinking with respect to Hölderlin. “Interpretation”

376. Hölderlin

377. The interpretation of Hölderlin

378. “Interpretations” of “Hölderlin”

379. Thinking about Hölderlin

380. The interpretation of Hölderlin within the other thinking

b. “Commentary” and “interpretation”

381. “Commentary”

382. Commentary and interpretation

383. Comments

384. The comments

385. Comments

386. The interpretation

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